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...Lloyd George's political secretary at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-Rt. Hon. Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle, Baron Ker, 11th Marquess of Lothian...
Aged 50, the 11th Marquess of Lothian is supposed to be "the best brain at the India Office since Lord Birkenhead." Using this brain, Lord Lothian produced what seemed to many Britons a brilliant, simple and eminently workable plan for enfranchising more Indian women. At present 21 times more males than females vote in India. Under the Lothian Plan, persuasively expounded to the Conference by Lord Lothian last week, the wife or widow of every voting Indian male would be automatically enfranchised. What could be simpler or fairer than that...
Lord Lothian's best brain had assumed that each polygamous husband would be able to pick one of his wives for enfranchisement. Indians at the Conference held that such an assumption could only be made by a man who knows nothing about managing a harem. The 11th Marquess of Lothian, they observed, is a bachelor...
...overwhelming Conservative landslide of last year (TIME. Nov. 9). As a result their Lordships were able to study last week a scheme for restoring the power of their house which has been whipped together by an all-Conservative "unofficial committee" chairmanned by James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, Hon. Major General, twice Lord Privy Seal (1903-05 & 1924-29), Lord President of the Council (1922-24), Leader of the House of Lords (1925-29) and a thoroughgoing stuffed shirt...
England's great families furnish able politicians. Unlike great U. S. families, they also turn out great churchmen. Famed for political leaders is the house of Cecil, whose Lord Burghley served Queen Elizabeth and whose Marquess of Salisbury served Queen Victoria. Four of the great Salisbury's sons went into politics-the late Lord Edward (Egypt), the present Marquess (see p. 13), Lord Hugh (House of Commons), Lord Robert (League of Nations). A fifth son went into the church. Last September U. S. hostesses fluttered, U. S. churchmen threw open their pulpits, at the arrival...